In what retiring board member Joe Davis in May, as he left his trustee’s position, called fellow board member Kevin Jeffries’ “swan song,” an extensive process was employed engaging all quarters of the community to arrive at a name for the new high school. Jeffries bravely chaired the naming committee, no doubt a challenging task in a community that has proudly, and often fiercely, carried the Boerne Greyhound banner. Emotions ran high. Opinions were weighed. Due diligence was applied. A community-wide election was even held to choose a name that would be acceptable, even cherished, by the majority of Boerne cititzens.

Davis advised the board at May’s meeting, where the consideration of an amendment to the name was on the agenda, “I encourage you as a member of the public not to go there. It has been a highly debated issue. (The naming committee) was very efficient. What the community wanted was acted on.” He evoked the board’s credibility and integrity when he said, “I encourage you not to disturb that but to leave that in place.”

To summarily reject the laborious process by which the BISD arrived at a name for its new high school would be a bigger blunder than suffering the slings and arrows currently aimed its way.

Whether or not the school’s name remains Boerne Champion in the long term, the board was in no way unthinking.

– Lauri Gray Eaton

Editor of the Hill Country View